The financial independence wild goose chase
I was sitting across from a new acquaintance at the CampFI Midwest and he was telling me about his next budding venture. He had a brilliant business plan. An idea which no one had capitalized on before. He was in the middle of gathering investors and beginning the long process of due diligence. I probed further. I am always wary of what I call the financial independence wild goose chase.
It turns out that he had no love or passion for this new project. He really dug the idea of building an empire, and he was ready to be financially independent. But the idea, the idea itself, held little excitement for him....
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/docg" rel="tag" > DocG, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
10 Steps to Nurse Entrepreneurship
I recently attended the 2018 annual conference of theNational Nurses in Business Association(NNBA) and I was reminded that many nursing professionals would like to be business owners but aren ' t sure how to get started. That lack of business acumen is both prevalent and understandable.While I ' m not specifically a business coach for nurses, my career coaching practice and experience as a nurse entrepreneur has taught me a thing or two about getting a business up and running.Photo by rawpixel on UnsplashWhat Does A Business Do? Before we get to my top tips for launching your nurse-run business, let ' s...
Source: Digital Doorway - October 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: entrepreneurship National Nurses in Business Association NNBA nurse entrepreneurs nurse entrepreneurship nursing Source Type: blogs
Veganism Is About Power, Not Animals
Having been a consumer of animal products and a non-consumer for more than 20 years on each path, I’ve experienced both paths from the inside for significant lengths of time. I think it’s easier to make the choice by comparing each perspective experientially. I went vegan by deciding to try it for a month to see what it was like. I like encouraging people to try different lifestyle experiments in a similar fashion. Choose from a place of knowing, not from a place of ignorance.
As long as you remain on the outside looking in, you never really understand a particular lifestyle path. You can’t predict who yo...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - October 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Values Source Type: blogs
NAFTA 2.0: The Best Trade Agreement Ever Negotiated (Except for All of the Others)
Conclusion: Criterion is almost met).Would limit the use of so-called trade remedy or trade defense measures.Trade remedy laws give domestic industries recourse to trade restrictions when they can demonstrate injury caused by “dumped,” subsidized, or substantially increasing imports. Theselaws are prone to misuse and abuse and become loopholes through which the benefits of trade barrier reduction achieved in the agreement can be quickly rescinded. In USMCA, no restrictions on the use of antidumping, countervailing duty, or safeguard measures are made. Rather, the long arm of the Safeguard law extends further under ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Evaluating the New NAFTA
There ’s a lot in the new NAFTA (technically, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA), some of it good and some of it bad (the new name is terrible, but that’s not particularly important). In this blog post, we offer our thoughts on some of the key provisions, after which we provide an initial over all assessment of the agreement. We break it down into the good, the interesting, the whatever, the worrying, the bad, and the ugly.The Good:– Canadian agriculture: In terms of liberalization in the USMCA, the most important component is the liberalization of Canadian agriculture imports, such as dairy products, eggs, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 3, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester, Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
The Skinny on The Narrow Bank
Dedicated readers may recall my havingreported here several years ago the suit filed by Colorado ’s Four Corner’s Credit Union against the Kansas City Fed — after the Fed refused it a Master Account on the grounds that it planned to cater to Colorado’s marijuana-related businesses. Until then the episode was almost unique, for the Fed had scarcely ever refused a Master Account to any pr operly licensed depository institution. Eventually the Fed and Four Corners reached a compromise, of sorts, with the Fed agreeing to grant the credit union an account so long as it promised not to do business with the very firms it ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
6 Ways Being A Generalist Can Help You To Specialize Better
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Many people falsely believe that being a specialist is essential in today's business environment. However, that might not be the case. I submit that the generalist will become one of the most sought-after professionals in the business world.
In the past, medical, financial and legal professionals had highly specialized areas of expertise. The belief was that having deep expertise in a particular ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rob Pene Tags: career featured self confidence success better managers generalist leaders specialist Source Type: blogs
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In June, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final regulation that implements President Trump’s executive order encouraging the expansion of association health plans (AHPs) for small businesses and self-employed individuals. Under these rules, professional or trade associations will be permitted to sell health plans that are exempt from many Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections as early as September 1, 2018. However, 12 attorneys general have now sued to enjoin the rule, noting that AHPs have a long history of fraud and insolvency, and in some places have undermined states’ individual and small-group markets. While ...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kevin Lucia, Sabrina Corlette , Christina Goe, Justin Giovannelli, Maanasa Kona Source Type: blogs
Towards a New North American Free Trade Agreement (in Principle)
After a brief hiatus during the run up to the recent Mexican elections, negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are in the news again, with hints of an agreement by the end of August. We have heard talk of an imminent agreement before and the chances of an agreement within the month may not be very high, and even if it does happen it may be more of an “agreement in principle” with many details still to be worked out. Nevertheless, with the renewed interest, we thought it was worth breaking down some of the key remaining issues (there are a lot of them, which helps illustrate the amount of work s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak, Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
What Does Reading Do to Your Brain?
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Have you ever felt inspired after reading a masterful book? Have you ever felt like the book made you see things in a different way? Have you ever discovered knowledge because of a book? Has a book made you feel wiser?
Books have power! Reading is an amazing process that can actually rewire your brain.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” That w...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thomaslovecraft Tags: featured reading self improvement brain health habits pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Why doctors don ’t call in sick when they should
Recent research from Florida Atlantic University and Cleveland State University have found a direct correlation between preventative health care and the number of paid sick leave days a worker gets. Workers with more than 10 paid sick days annually access preventative care more frequently than those without paid sick days.
Preventative care, in turn, leads to better overall mental and physical health. Doctors that are in private practice function like small business owners, when they are out for any reason, including sickness, they must pay overhead without collecting income. Doctors in academic practices and those empl...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jennifer-weiss" rel="tag" > Jennifer Weiss, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Infectious Disease Surgery Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: July 28, 2018
This week’s Psychology Around the Net dives into a new online program that helps people with mental health issues better handle money, how you can know someone’s personality by their eye movements, why psychology courses are important for business owners, and more.
Enjoy!
Banks’ 360-Degree View of Customers Could Include Their Mental Health: Silver Cloud Health has created an online mental health program, Space from Money Worries, to help people who have financial problems related to mental health issues. The program is designed to help those with a link between finances and mental health learn how to man...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Celebrities Depression Disorders Industrial and Workplace Military Money and Financial Personality Psychology Around the Net Research Sleep business owners celebrities and mental health celebrity gossip employees finances and m Source Type: blogs
" Zero Subsidies " Through a U.S.-EU Trade Agreement Is Unlikely
Recall that President Trump said this yesterday in the context of his remarks with European Commission President Juncker:This is why we agreed today, first of all, to work together toward zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods. Zero tariffs on these products through a trade agreement is a plausible and useful goal. On the other hand, zero non-tariff barriers could only be achieved through the U.S. joining an EU-style single market, which I don ’t think anyone has in mind here. It is possible to remove a few of the more egregious regulatory barriers, but we should be real...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 26, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
Destroying Property Value by Regulation Is Just as Bad as Using Eminent Domain
Nearly a century has passed since Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ’s legendary proclamation that “while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.” But that statement did little to actually clarify when the Fifth Amendment’s protections against uncompensated takings of property applies to go vernment action that regulates away the use of land rather than physically taking it through eminent domain.Attempting to clear up that confusion, the Supreme Court 40 years ago handed down the now infamousPenn Centraldecision (involving the historic qualities of N...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 25, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, Meggan DeWitt Source Type: blogs
Both physicians and CEOs need time to think
I’ve always likened the job of a primary care physician to that of a chief executive officer of a small business. Family doctors manage the “business” of delivering and coordinating care for more than a thousand patients at an average cost, in the United States, of $8,500 per year: an $8 to $12 million business. Because the actions or inactions of the PCP impact the need for, and cost of, specialist and hospital care “downstream” from the primary care office, I think of this as “our” business.
Because of this, I subscribe to the Harvard Business Review. I figure doctors must have some degree of common busines...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs
